piframe/docs/slideshow.md

Slideshow

The below commands will setup feh as a slideshow on your display.

Important Notes

• feh will crash if there are no photos for it to use as a slideshow
• You will likely want to tweak the feh command invocation below. These are great settings as a starting point but you'll probably want to make adjustments for your use case.
• This setup uses incron to restart feh when photos are deleted from the pictures folder. Without this piece feh will crash if a picture is removed from the pictures directory prior to feh rescaning the pictures directory.
• We default to DejaVuSansMono as the font for display of EXIF data and filename. This is an open font and looks great on most displays. Any fontconfig font can be used in its place. Adjust according to your preferences.

Setup

pacman -S feh imagemagick ttf-dejavu
# reload 86400 is to refresh the list of images daily -- tune for preferred number of seconds
# slideshow-delay is number of seconds (as a float) between images ; tune accordingly
useradd -s /usr/bin/nologin -m feh
chmod a+rx /tank/pictures
pacman -S acl
setfacl -m "u:feh:rX" /tank/pictures
setfacl -dm "u:feh:rX" /tank/pictures
pacman -S incron
cat > /etc/incron.d/feh <<EOF
/tank/pictures IN_DELETE systemctl restart greetd
EOF
systemctl enable --now incrond
cat > /usr/local/bin/feh-slideshow.sh <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/feh --auto-zoom --borderless --fullscreen --hide-pointer --image-bg black --randomize --recursive \
--slideshow-delay 300 --reload 86400 \
--draw-tinted --draw-exif --draw-filename \
--fontpath /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ --font DejaVuSansMono/10 \
--verbose \
/tank/pictures
EOF
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/feh-slideshow.sh
cat >> /etc/greetd/config.toml <<EOF
[initial_session]
command = "/usr/bin/cage /usr/local/bin/feh-slideshow.sh"
user = "feh"
EOF
systemctl restart greetd